Example sentences of "cent [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For more than £2 the rate was 20 per cent or a halfpenny a month for every fraction of 2s 6d . |
| 2 | It is impossible for Jarrow to raise the 80 per cent or the amount needed for new schools ; so the children will continue to suffer … . |
| 3 | With liquid assets of £1.3 million , a profit margin of 18 per cent and a return of 15 per cent on capital the county must be the envy of many businesses totally unconnected with cricket . |
| 4 | Of those who were visited , 44 per cent had only relatives to see them , 11 per cent were visited just by friends or neighbours and 45 per cent by both relatives and friends ; the most frequent visitor was a relative for 78 per cent and a friend or neighbour for 22 per cent . |
| 5 | In the United States , the strict new Clean Air Bill passed by the senate in April 1990 would cut carbon monoxide emissions by 70 per cent and a number of other gases by 22 per cent . |
| 6 | While the SPD 's share of the vote fell by 7.5 per cent to 47.3 , the Right-wing Deutsche Volks-Union came from nowhere to rack up 5.1 per cent and a place in the local parliament . |
| 7 | The government 's programme for 1992 aimed at a rate of gross domestic product ( GDP ) growth of 6.5 per cent , a reduction in the rate of inflation to 6-7 per cent and a strengthening of the country 's external payments position . |
| 8 | Gearing will be pushed up from the present 13 per cent and the board will then seek some longer-term financing . |
| 9 | Our vote had collapsed to a paltry 7 per cent and the alliance of the centre now seemed capable of taking everything before it . |
| 10 | After a flat opening beers perked up when it became known that August beer production was up 8 per cent and the year 's output had edged 0.6 per cent ahead of last year 's corresponding performance . |
| 11 | By taking a four-month period to flatten out the effect of the usually low total in August and the correspondingly high one for September it calculates the increase on the previous four months was four per cent and the year on year growth at 11 per cent . |
| 12 | The joint left programme gained the parties presenting it — the Socialist Unity Party ( still commonly known as the PSI ) , the Social Democrats ( PSDI ) and the communists ( PDS ) — an aggregate of only 25 per cent and the government coalition parties ( DC , PSI , PSDI and Liberals — PLI ) an aggregate of only 23 per cent . |
| 13 | .. The Bundesbank puts up its rate by 1 per cent and the Chancellor is forced to put up his rate by 1 per cent straight ahead of the Tory Party conference . |
| 14 | The DLP won 38.5 per cent of the total vote , the DP 29.2 per cent and the UNP 17.3 per cent . |
| 15 | The market dismissed a 0.25 point discount rate cut to 3.75 per cent and the bringing of forward public spending plans , worth 0.5 per cent of gross domestic product , as window dressing . |
| 16 | The labour supply would have been reduced by about 5 per cent and the reduction in potential output was estimated to be some 3–4 per cent of the gross national product . |
| 17 | If your net margin on sales is 10 per cent and the discount offered for early payment is 2.5 per cent , you are effectively giving away a quarter of your profit . |
| 18 | ( In the Mediterranean the kernel is only 35 per cent and the shell 65 per cent ; the Californian reversal is just one result of the intensive breeding and selection programme . ) |
| 19 | Cable & Wireless holds around three-quarters of the shares , the Hong Kong Government another 7 per cent and the remainder are held by outside shareholders . |
| 20 | Russians comprised 9.4 per cent , Poles 7.0 per cent and the remainder were Byelorussians , Ukrainians , Jews , Latvians , and Germans ( 1989 census ) . |
| 21 | Between 1950 and the early 1970s the sector grew by just under 10 per cent and the increase was mainly made up of financial and commercial services . |
| 22 | Pakistan 's economic growth rate for the 1991/92 fiscal year ( ending on June 30 , 1992 ) was estimated at 5.8 per cent , while inflation had dropped from 12.5 to 9.5 per cent , exports were up by 13 per cent and the budget deficit , which had risen to 8.8 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1990/91 following the Gulf war , was expected to be about 6 per cent , well short of the IMF 's target of 4.8 per cent . |
| 23 | The ranking produced by the NPV 30 per cent and the yield tables are the same since the rates found in the latter are of the order of the 30 per cent applied in the former . |
| 24 | The ranking produced by the NPV 30 per cent and the yield tables are the same since the rates found in the latter are of the order of the 30 per cent applied in the former . |
| 25 | Income tax brackets were to be reduced from 11 to three , with the rate for the upper bracket cut from 60 to 40 per cent and the ceiling of tax exempted income raised from $3,105 to $4,140 . |
| 26 | Again there is no initial charge and the annual management fee is 0.5 per cent and the fund invests in a combination of high interest building society and bank deposits , gilts and local authority bonds . |
| 27 | The Americans came up with 22 per cent and the Japanese , who seem to manufacture all the latest gadgets , actually thought up only six per cent . |
| 28 | At the time of writing , the prime rate is 8 per cent and the rate of inflation is under 4 per cent . |
| 29 | To illustrate , consider the case where the spot FTSE100 index is standing at 1820.0 , the money market interest rate is 10 per cent and the dividend yield is 4 per cent . |
| 30 | In terms of area the share of Western Europe rose from 29 to nearly 50 per cent , North America from 12 to 16 per cent , while the sterling area ( developed ) fell from 23 to 13 per cent and the sterling area ( developing ) from 22 to 12 per cent . |